ambergirl
Well-Known Member
I appreciate that the mods work hard to keep this forum clean and as drama free as possible. Yet, I've noticed a pattern of what appear to be arbitrary decisions made by the mods and would like to make the following suggestions.
When you make change to the forum like removing the thanks button, why not just send out a general alert explaining to members why you made the change? Instead, now you have multiple threads of people wondering where the thanks button has gone and whether its gone permanently. If it's a glitch, again a simple general alert message would eliminate alot of speculation and conversation about why the change.
Second, even though I appreciated the thanks button and found it a way of letting members know you enjoyed their posts, if you felt the thanks button encouraged a popularity contest, then you should remove the number of posts folks have made completely as that's another way of "ranking" members. Rather just post the year someone joined to show that they are a long time member.
Lastly, when you lock a thread, the last post on the thread should say why you are closing the thread. There have been numerous incidents were a thread has been closed for no apparent reason. If you want people to adhere to some type of etiquette around posts, then you should make it clear to people when they've broken that etiquette so we know what can and can't be posted.
Again, I appreciate your efforts to keep things civil around here, but I think it would make for an even better forum if the mods took just a few steps to be as respectful to the members as they are asking us to be to each other.
When you make change to the forum like removing the thanks button, why not just send out a general alert explaining to members why you made the change? Instead, now you have multiple threads of people wondering where the thanks button has gone and whether its gone permanently. If it's a glitch, again a simple general alert message would eliminate alot of speculation and conversation about why the change.
Second, even though I appreciated the thanks button and found it a way of letting members know you enjoyed their posts, if you felt the thanks button encouraged a popularity contest, then you should remove the number of posts folks have made completely as that's another way of "ranking" members. Rather just post the year someone joined to show that they are a long time member.
Lastly, when you lock a thread, the last post on the thread should say why you are closing the thread. There have been numerous incidents were a thread has been closed for no apparent reason. If you want people to adhere to some type of etiquette around posts, then you should make it clear to people when they've broken that etiquette so we know what can and can't be posted.
Again, I appreciate your efforts to keep things civil around here, but I think it would make for an even better forum if the mods took just a few steps to be as respectful to the members as they are asking us to be to each other.